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Michael Bernstein

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Michael Bernstein, MSW, is the lead Administrator at Drisha Institute for Jewish Education and a copy editor at The Lehrhaus. In addition to his editorial work in Jewish Studies, Michael has published his own scholarship in the area of Karaite law codes, including a critical edition of Adderet Eliyahu (c. 1500) produced for the Karaite Press online learning center and forthcoming in print. Michael lives in Riverdale, Bronx with his wife Dr. Jade Gormady and their two children.

How the Song of Deborah Utilizes the Blessings of Jacob: A Study in Rhetorical...

Surprisingly, Bible scholars have not addressed the remarkable intertextual conversation between Jacob's blessings in Genesis 49 and Deborah's song in Judges 5. Michael Bernstein offers his original etymological analysis of the two poetic texts.

No Assembly Required: The Individualized Aspects of the Shalosh Regalim

Michael Bernstein examines how the individual experience is ironically incorporated into holidays that are all about the community.